Visions Of Alterity: The Gothic Encounter In Chaucer's House Of Fame  

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Yang, Ming-Tsang

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Fu jen studies: literature & linguistics no. 42 (May 2009), page 1-26.
Topik: Chaucer. House oj Fame. Gothic architecture. Gothic. Other. alterity. Dido; the eagle. Fame

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Chaucerians have used the analogy of the Gothic cathedral to explain an important feature in Chaucer's works: a poised balance or a structurally harmonized synthesis of disparate parts. However, this Gothic analogy is doubly misleading: on the one hand, it disregards the many contradictions and discontinuities in Chaucer's works: on the other hand, it obscures the disruptive elements and unsettling ambivalence within the Gothic itself. Chaucer's House of Fame oW'ev^ a most challenging case in point as its narrator announces at the beginning the unprecedented wonder o\' the dream. This paper explores the crucial relationship between "Gothic" and "Other" in Chaucer's House of Fame. The discussion focuses on the three dominant sites/sights in the dream vision that generate various unsettling images of the marvelous and extravagant: the temple of Venus. the desert and the house of Fame. Visions of alterity prove to be the poem's locus of generation and source of dynamism. The poem dramatizes the narrator's encounter with at once the familiar world of self and the unfamiliar world of Other. Moreover, if the poet reveals the intersection of self-same and other difference, he also subtly lays claim to eanonicity through the unconventional Gothic encounter with the man of authority at the "end" of the poem.

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